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From: "Niraj kumar" <niraj17@gmail.com>
To: "Evgeniy Polyakov" <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] inotify : process based filtering of events
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:43:01 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b82a89170812200513q1a27b62ap590fb6fbad930a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081220104048.GB23632@ioremap.net>

>>
>> Is it possible to achieve this process based filtering of events
>> using inotify infrastructure?
>
> You can try using inotify nested attributes patch [1] and filter events
> in userspace based on reported pid/tid.

I saw your patch and the related discussion...
But I am thinking that filtering in userspace based on pid/tid
could be too much overhead when the data that I am interested
in might be just a small fraction of the whole thing...

I was hoping to add a flag (similar to IN_ATTRS that you have added)
which, when used, will only collect events for the calling
process and it's children...

-Niraj

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-20  6:51 Niraj kumar
2008-12-20 10:40 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-20 13:13   ` Niraj kumar [this message]
2008-12-20 17:13     ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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